Figure I would make a thread so we can all share features that people may not know or advice.
I'll start off.... If you hold down one of the volume keys while the screen is off it will play music automatically. Awesome!
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technostein said:
Figure I would make a thread so we can all share features that people may not know or advice.
I'll start off.... If you hold down one of the volume keys while the screen is off it will play music automatically. Awesome!
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I can't get it to do this-(
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reubenskelly1992 said:
I can't get it to do this-(
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Works fine with mine. You on a sense based ROM?
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technostein said:
Works fine with mine. You on a sense based ROM?
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My T-Mo HTC One doesnt do that either
although there are a few other Motion Launch gestures listed in Settings > Display and Gestures > Motion Launch gestures.
I really like the camera launching one. Hold phone in landscape and press the volume key, camera opens right up.
Nippero said:
My T-Mo HTC One doesnt do that either
although there are a few other Motion Launch gestures listed in Settings > Display and Gestures > Motion Launch gestures.
I really like the camera launching one. Hold phone in landscape and press the volume key, camera opens right up.
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I am clueless then lol. Strange
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technostein said:
Figure I would make a thread so we can all share features that people may not know or advice.
I'll start off.... If you hold down one of the volume keys while the screen is off it will play music automatically. Awesome!
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Doesn't work for me.
Not on my stock rom and not on viper.
It must be part of your custom rom.
Yeah I haven't rooted yet. Just plain sense
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One feature that didn't really get much attention is video recording at 60fps. Not even gsmarena covered it.
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technostein said:
Figure I would make a thread so we can all share features that people may not know or advice.
I'll start off.... If you hold down one of the volume keys while the screen is off it will play music automatically. Awesome!
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Did you happen to have a music player open in the background or something on pause?
As far as I've ever seen in any Android device, holding down a particular volume button has always been used to go forward to a new track or backwards to a previous track.
mkhopper said:
Did you happen to have a music player open in the background or something on pause?
As far as I've ever seen in any Android device, holding down a particular volume button has always been used to go forward to a new track or backwards to a previous track.
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It wasn't on my recent apps but I did pause it before ending it. I just held down the volume key and music player started playing. On insertcoin with elemental kernel. Probably a feature from the kernel or ROM. My bad.
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if you open the dialer and put a number in it it will make a phone call
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Nope. You need to press the call button afterwards troll fail.
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If you swipe up on the screen with 3 fingers it will ask you to choose a device to connect to.
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For me double tap works on my GPE ROM(not gpe edition) could be the kernel but I am pretty sure this ROM is stock everything I had to flash SuperSU in recovery
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technostein said:
It wasn't on my recent apps but I did pause it before ending it. I just held down the volume key and music player started playing. On insertcoin with elemental kernel. Probably a feature from the kernel or ROM. My bad.
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The volume button thing is a mod you get with insert coin.
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If you swipe up on the screen with 3 fingers it will ask you to choose a device to connect to.
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Wow..what does it mean by choose a device to connect to? It noticed by Xbox one.
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Nope. You need to press the call button afterwards troll fail.
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just tried it now as long you have set a speed dial to the number you press it just calls it.
volume down didn't do anything but volume up from the lock screen turns on the torch
mmmajor said:
Wow..what does it mean by choose a device to connect to? It noticed by Xbox one.
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Allows you to connect to a DLNA device on your wifi network. Smart TV or PC (I use smartshare by LG on my PC as i have an LG TV)
I've had the phone for a week. Just recently found out that it has a built-in pedometer. You have to get the Fitbit app to access the feature. Then it can count your steps throughout the day. I've been using it a couple of days. Doesn't seem to have much effect on battery life.
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I've had the phone for a week. Just recently found out that it has a built-in pedometer. You have to get the Fitbit app to access the feature. Then it can count your steps throughout the day. I've been using it a couple of days. Doesn't seem to have much effect on battery life.
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I BELIEVE the phone already records the pedometer data on its own similar to apples chip on the 5s. Installing the fitbit app just let's you view the data, however, the fitbit apps seems to wake the phone quite a bit and consequently is most likely wasting more battery. If you are rooted and use greenify, you can greenify fitbit and still see your progress wheb you launch the app rather than having the app wake your phone in the background.
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bkeaver said:
If you swipe up on the screen with 3 fingers it will ask you to choose a device to connect to.
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Good find. It also works if you swipe to the right using 3 fingers!
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I dont see one....i liked the one on s2
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Long press the home button
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Long press the home button
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+1
After the long press, the option to launch the task manager should be there towards the bottom
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Thanks guys
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I dont see one....i liked the one on s2
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If you want one that looks exactly like the one from S2, you can goto samsung apps and look for task manager, this will give you the same widget as the one that s2 had.
Is a task manager much of a need anymore?
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glockmodel23 said:
Is a task manager much of a need anymore?
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Old habits die hard
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bmoreboy02 said:
I dont see one....i liked the one on s2
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it's called the android operating system. seriously you have 2 gigs of ram... let it work
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After the long press, the option to launch the task manager should be there towards the bottom
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If you long press the home button and swipe the visible apps to the left, does that kill them or just remove them from the list?
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it's called the android operating system. seriously you have 2 gigs of ram... let it work
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The task manager only says i have 1.62
stupid Samsung lied to us. :O
I assume .38 gigs is reserved for the system so it's not showing?
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If you long press the home button and swipe the visible apps to the left, does that kill them or just remove them from the list?
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It removes them from the list. Just because there on the list doesn't mean they are running.
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Magic Oreo said:
The task manager only says i have 1.62
stupid Samsung lied to us. :O
I assume .38 gigs is reserved for the system so it's not showing?
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There will always be discrepancies between installed memory and storage space versus useable memory.
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Wether its useful or not i like the idea its not on the app list and just a matter of holding home button.
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Magic Oreo said:
The task manager only says i have 1.62
stupid Samsung lied to us. :O
I assume .38 gigs is reserved for the system so it's not showing?
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My understanding is the GPU requires this portion of system memory. Kind of like how some cheap onboard video cards in PC's used to. Which makes it all the better to have 2gb RAM. If not, you'd only have 620mb usable memory!
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Wether its useful or not i like the idea its not on the app list and just a matter of holding home button.
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samsung apps has the old school application monitor widget for download, just have to sign up to sammy to get it via samsung apps.
Naddict said:
samsung apps has the old school application monitor widget for download, just have to sign up to sammy to get it via samsung apps.
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Dumb question but how do you sign up for a samsung account? When I first activated my phone I got a notification and started running through the samsung account signup but during the process the app crashed, I didn't finish, and it never notified me again and I couldn't figure out how to create the samsung account from scratch.
glockmodel23 said:
Is a task manager much of a need anymore?
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I only use it to end Play Music. Sometimes it doesn't stop streaming.
glockmodel23 said:
If you long press the home button and swipe the visible apps to the left, does that kill them or just remove them from the list?
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It closes the app. You can test this by going into task manager and go to the running apps. Now swipe away any of the corresponding app in the recent app(hold home) and then when you go back the task manager the app you just swipe will be gone or will eventually go away. Also your remaining ram will go up.
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Dumb question but how do you sign up for a samsung account? When I first activated my phone I got a notification and started running through the samsung account signup but during the process the app crashed, I didn't finish, and it never notified me again and I couldn't figure out how to create the samsung account from scratch.
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Go to settings/accounts and sync/add account/samsung
Siri Proxy allows you to control additional devices with a Siri device. So I thought there must be something similar available for Android.:fingers-crossed:So we can also control our garages with Android devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJ5z76Xv5o
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ons-that-show-how-amazing-the-tiny-pc-can-be/
https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy
So many views but no reply ?
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Can't this be done with Google Now? Seems like it would be a feature.
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damnyouwaffles said:
Can't this be done with Google Now? Seems like it would be a feature.
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Yes, something has to be done with Google now
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I'll look into it.
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look on "utter" in playstore with tasker you can put event on it - you down't need to be online.
meo said:
look on "utter" in playstore with tasker you can put event on it - you down't need to be online.
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It is all in beta.
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I have been wanting something like this as well.
To have an application to do this though, you would have to have two parts two it.
First part would be an app on your Android device, and the other part would be something that runs on a computer @ the house.
Reason for this is because you would want a secure connection between your phone and the app. Otherwise, anyone/everyone would be able to access your home automation system.
If there is anything like this, that would be awesome, but I don't think there is
The closest thing you can get to it is HomeSeer, but it isn't voice activated. It's only buttons.
If anyone knows of a program that would do voice activation home automation, please let me know!
I done a couple of Google searches and can't find anything to really help me. I don't know if this has been asked before or not? But I'm coming from an iPhone where when I had my phone locked I could double click the home button and change the song. Is there anyway I can do that with the s4? And also I ran the iOS 7 beta before I got this phone and they had an option where I could swipe up and the control center would pop-up and it'll have a bunch of random things and I could change the song. I've seen something like that for android but only thing missing was to change the music. I hate unlocking my phone and going back to the app just to change the song and I don't want to use s-voice to change it.
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The control center looks like this.
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You should have the stock samsung music player on your lock screen
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deadeye0908 said:
You should have the stock samsung music player on your lock screen
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That, plus it should or can be enabled in the notifications pulldown. I'm in the same boat, just sold my I5 for a galaxy s4. New to Android.. love it. The fact that the whole market is basically what cydia was is awesome, but it's hard to find some of the features I was used to with activator and sbsettings.. In nX (nottach xposed) or 3minit Framework, the options to longpress volume toggle track skipping is available.. but I can't seem to get it to work for my I337. It is there though, most options are compatible if you're ATT as well. Worth a try.
I don't have any music on my phone I just use the unlimited Pandora which I used on a jail broken iPhone will it be able to control Pandora? I just hate having a widget on the lock screen besides the date and time. I know I'm difficult. Well I found this app on the play store “widgetlocker lock screen” but its for 2.99 I'll have to find a free alternative for the time being.
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You can change songs using the notification bar. Even if the notification bar is hidden you can make it appear by doing a swipe down gesture from the top of the screen.
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I guess since I'm using the older version of Pandora its not letting me swipe down to show controls.
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I have full access to Pandora from my lockscreen. Take off any pattern/pin/face unlock you have on your lockscreen and the Pandora controls should show there.
Simple fix uninstall ur hacked/ warez version of Pandora and install the legal version from the any store and it will work fine and have all the options
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Try draging down with the pandora player in the notification panel.
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I'm not going to give Pandora anymore of my money. When I was on my iPhone they had me upgrade to pandora one for $3.99/month which i did for a year and it was like I could “listen to music unlimited“ well once I skipped 6 songs it said you reached your limit you can't skip anymore songs for an hour after I paid money for it! Not doing that ever again.
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I'm not going to give Pandora anymore of my money. When I was on my iPhone they had me upgrade to pandora one for $3.99/month which i did for a year and it was like I could “listen to music unlimited“ well once I skipped 6 songs it said you reached your limit you can't skip anymore songs for an hour after I paid money for it! Not doing that ever again.
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Then I guess ur stuck with the app how it is if u won't update to the legal version then
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oddspec said:
Then I guess ur stuck with the app how it is if u won't update to the legal version then
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And if your nit using the legal version than we cant help you as warez (non legal versions of apps) are prohibited here on xda...just download the free versuon of pandora from the play store...I dont see what the big deal is
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Thanks for everyone's help it was just a matter of figuring out how to work this phone but I got it figured. Thanks everyone.
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I have decided to make this into a bit more than just a screen recording tool. I have added some backup features as well as a recording option for default settings or custom ones. I have decided to make a thread over in development since it's now a utility.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47096306#post47096306
This thread can now be locked since this has been moved.
Bump? I got a couple things added in. May do another one or two before posting a new version.
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Is there a way to record screen without having to be connected to a computer?
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dobbs3x said:
Is there a way to record screen without having to be connected to a computer?
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There are a couple of apps on the play store that can be used.
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dobbs3x said:
Is there a way to record screen without having to be connected to a computer?
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You can press and hold VOLUME DOWN + POWER to take screen shot on android 4.3 (dunno if works for 4.4 later)
alexyie said:
You can press and hold VOLUME DOWN + POWER to take screen shot on android 4.3 (dunno if works for 4.4 later)
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It does, but that wasn't what he was asking. He was inquiring about recording the screen, not taking a picture of it.
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Continue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2510952
Thank you.
I know this is probably more related to the actual FB app but I feel like it's a complete violation of privacy and I don't particularly want this happening but can not seem to find a setting to turn it off.. Here is a scenario where this would be completely out of place and unacceptable..
You take a picture of something private .. You or a friend gets your phone and opens the Facebook app... Oh look the last 3 pics you took.... Really? WTF? Anyone know how to turn this off?
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Check settings. Turn off facebook sync photos.
Just using Facebook is violation of privacy. Even if you find away to turn it off that feature; Facebook is always sucking up information from your device (contacts, location, call logs, pictures, and so on). This is one of the reason I don't use Facebook.
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That's definitely true... Makes me sad. I think in this issue though the most disturbing thing is that it's accessing another app (gallery) and then putting the 3 most recent pics in the app (suggesting) you post them. Who's to say their appropriate to post. I don't like this at all.
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jcnbama said:
That's definitely true... Makes me sad. I think in this issue though the most disturbing thing is that it's accessing another app (gallery) and then putting the 3 most recent pics in the app (suggesting) you post them. Who's to say their appropriate to post. I don't like this at all.
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Open the Facebook app and tap the top left main menu in your sidebar*Scroll to the bottom and select*Account*>*App Settings*>*Sync PhotosChoose*Don't sync my photos
If you are rooted install below app. This will give you some control over apps permission.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schurich.android.tools.appopsstarter
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Don't sync photos is already selected. This is new. It's not syncing my photos it's just suggesting photos from my gallery (the last 3 taken) for me to post. Very annoying. I will definitely check out the other app you put on here. I apologize I couldn't quote because the XDA app kinda sux.
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I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
z0rin said:
I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
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Guys, just get another app for Facebook. There's tons of apps that don't these extra permissions and don't steal your data, AND THEY RUN BETTER than the stock Facebook app. Example : fast for facebook (search it!)
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I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
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No I didn't. I've tried alternative FB apps in the past. Haven't generally had much success but maybe I'll give it another go..
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Fb app is the worst app ever, I started using fb on browser and all kinds of wonders happened, like improved battery life
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The facebook app is becoming worse and more invasive after each update, i think it's time to switch to an unofficial app for it
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I apologize I couldn't quote because the XDA app kinda sux.
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Yes the xda app is a bit buggy but you can quote.
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No... I can't quote.... I'm not just making it up... I have to post another post to be able to click on a post to quote it...
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Ibrahim.Rahman said:
Yes the xda app is a bit buggy but you can quote.
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So it ends up looking like this. I tapped on my post, so I could quote your post. Because it always highlights the one above it. Don't say random stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. Obviously if I could have quoted I would've done it. Been doing this a while....
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So it ends up looking like this. I tapped on my post, so I could quote your post. Because it always highlights the one above it. Don't say random stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. Obviously if I could have quoted I would've done it. Been doing this a while....
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Yes that is a bug. However if you tap the time at the right hand side of each post, the corresponding post is highlighted, not the one above it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... Sorry for being abrasive. Just been very frustrated with the XDA app lately. It used to be so much easier to use.
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danyf90 said:
The facebook app is becoming worse and more invasive after each update, i think it's time to switch to an unofficial app for it
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Good idea
Tapatalk FTW!
badboy47 said:
Open the Facebook app and tap the top left main menu in your sidebar*Scroll to the bottom and select*Account*>*App Settings*>*Sync PhotosChoose*Don't sync my photos
If you are rooted install below app. This will give you some control over apps permission.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schurich.android.tools.appopsstarter
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App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
sid.8491 said:
App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
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Yes, there is a good alternative:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540233
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sid.8491 said:
App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
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There is an app called AppOps X that works on 4.4.2
Here
Or Xposed module
Here